good day. this is "andrea mitchell reports" in washington. we are expecting a federal court to unseal the warrant and the property receipt connected to the fbi search of former president donald trump's mar-a-lago home earlier this week. merrick garland explaining the decision to file a motion after mr. trump made the fbi search public and defending his department and the fbi after public condemnations from republican lawmakers and a deadly incident that started at an fbi field office on thursday. >> men and women of the fbi and justice department are dedicated, patriotic public servants. every day they protect the american people from violent

crime, terrorism and other threats to their safety while safeguarding our civil rights. they do so at great personal sacrifice and risk to themselves. >> just before midnight, mr. trump posting on his social media platform that he is encouraging the release of documents his own lawyers could make public ahead of the court's disclosure. the house of representatives is expected to pass a $430 legislation, including new climate and clean energy investments and some controls on drug prices. a minimum tax on large corporations. i will speak to john podesta, former senior white house advisor on the state of the biden presidency three months before voters are heading to the polls. i will be joined by deborah tyce on the efforts by the biden

administration to free her son from the assad regime. we begin with former president trump and the justice department. joining me now, ken dilanian, phil rucker, paul charlton and michael beschloss. welcome all. ken, give us the latest -- this is being updated by our reporting team minute by minute. talk to me about what justice is doing as we await these documents to be released. >> reporter: as far as we can tell, the justice department has not filed its formal notice asking that these documents be unsealed to the judge, which is due by 3:00 p.m. that could happen at any time. because the trump team is saying they're not opposing the release of the documents, we feel like the release could happen imminently. it's not clear why the trump team can't release them on their own. it's a really interesting decision that the justice department has made essentially to say to the trump side, put up

or shut up. you have been saying this search was unfair, improper. you have these documents in your possession. we are asking the judge to unseal them. it's important to note that the justice department is not asking to unseal the most interesting part, the affidavit for probable cause. that's the justification the fbi presented to the judge to get the search warrant, including evidence of a crime and why they thought that evidence was at mar-a-lago and any kind of predicate and further context for the investigation. none of that we're going to see. if this document is released, we will see the face sheet of the warrant. it may list the statutes the fbi believes were violated. we will see a list of things the fbi said to the judge they were seeking. then we will see a list of inventory of things they said they seized. the question, andrea, because there case involves classified documents is, how detailed will that list be? we don't expect to see a designation for national

security agency transcript of a vladimir putin phone call. there may be information there that would denote the sensitivity of the documents in question. i'm told by law enforcement sources there will be at least some of that. this will give us a sense of how serious this investigation is and how sensitive some of the documents are that they found at mar-a-lago. >> phil, your team at "the post" has been reporting on the possible classified documents, saying nuclear weapons materials were a focus of the search. not that they were found, but they were the focus of a search. we have seen the former president be casual with sensitive information before, both during his oval office meeting with lavrov, tweeting out a classified satellite photo from iran, which caused a huge fuss, and also this memorable moment right after the 2018 helsinki summit at his news conference with vladimir putin. let's watch. >> my people came to m and

others said, they think it's russia. i have president putin. he just said it's not russia. i will say this. i don't see any reason why it would be. >> phil, there's certainly a track record how casually he handled classified documents in the past. it's not outside of the realm of possibility he would have left with some. tell me what you have got from "the washington post" in terms of them being nuclear. >> my colleagues at the post reported last night an exclusive story about nuclear documents being among the classified documents that fbi officials were seeking when they went to mar-a-lago on monday to search the former president's home and

that private club and event venue. we don't know based on our reporting whether those nuclear documents were recovered in the search. we don't know specifically what they pertain to. were they related to the u.s. nuclear program or were they related to the nuclear program of a foreign country? we don't have that reporting as of now. we do know according to "the washington post's" reporting that nuclear documents were among the documents that the fbi was seeking when they went to trump's residence in florida. the context that you raised, andrea, is right. trump throughout his presidency was very lax when it came to classified information. he also, by the way, had an acute interest through the years in nuclear weapons, in the u.s. nuclear program. it was something that interested him and fascinated him. both in his private conversations with advisers and in the public commentary he would make from time to time at press conferences, et cetera.

this is certainly -- it fits the character of what we know about trump, both being loose with classiied information and being interested in nuclear weapons. >> paul, there's also the piece about whether he has the right to declassify or to classify. he did while he was president. but i have heard conflicting reports -- we have reporting from experts that he could not simply declassify top secret compartmentalized nuclear documents without getting approval, and that he can't just wave a wand and say, these are declassified, i'm taking them. am i correct on that? >> you are, andrea. there's a debate among legal scholars about whether or not a former president could be prosecuted in situations such as this one. what i would say is this. it's important to remember that it isn't just the search for evidence of a crime that's involved here. it's the securing of that

evidence. every federal search warrant i have obtained, you want not just to see if there's evidence of a crime but you want to remove that evidence and put it in a safe place. here the evidence to be obtained and authorized to be taken involved classified information, that it wasn't just reasonable for the attorney general to seek to obtain that evidence or a federal magistrate judge to allow its taking but it may very well have been necessary. >> exactly. a lot of this could be not to prosecute the former president, although there are serious laws involved here, but that this is to get these documents back because of their sensitivity, if they are, indeed, sensitive as has been described. >> precisely. >> paul, before i let you go, i want to play what we heard from the trump attorney down at mar-a-lago who was present during the search. one of the two attorneys who was present last night on fox. take a look at this.

>> is it your understanding that there were not documents related to our nuclear capabilities or nuclear issues that had national security implications in the president's possession when the agents showed up at mar-a-lago? >> that's correct. i don't believe they were. if they thought -- >> do you know for a fact? have you spoken to the president about it? >> i have not specifically spoken to the president about what nuclear materials may or may not have been in there. i do not believe there were any in there. >> i'm just sort of stunned that the president's lawyer would not be in touch with him on this issue with everything that was going on yesterday. >> it's an extraordinary response. one of the reasons i believe the attorney general has sought at least in this limited scope the disclosure of what would otherwise be sealed information so that we the public can begin

to know and understand the motivation behind the attorney general's desire to take this information from the president's -- former president's personal residence. what that information involved exactly, we will get some understanding when we see the items that were actually taken. it won't be precise. it will be general in nature. but it will then be for us to take a look at and ask other questions if need be about what was taken. >> michael, let's talk about merrick garland, who came into office with a vow to restore the dignity and separation, the appropriate confidentiality and separation from politics of the justice department after everything it had been through under jeff sessions, bill barr, matt whittaker, and what we are now seeing from merrick garland, who was so criticized from many

people, many partisans who thought he was being too lax on going after donald trump. this is amazing. he called the former president's bluff yesterday after all the abuse that he has been taking. what is your take on this? >> you want an independent attorney general. that's what joe biden promised. compare this, just as you were saying, to bill barr who was much too close to donald trump and used the department of justice as trump's personal law firm, even to defend trump against certain cases that even occurred before his presidency. in garland's case, there's been a lot of people saying, either you should do this because it's politically important to neutralize trump -- that's wrong for an attorney general. others have said, you shouldn't do something like this because there are a lot of violent groups that will be very angry if you go after donald trump. that's not his job. his job as attorney general is

to pursue the law. the law says, an ex-president has to secure private -- classified government documents in an official setting. maybe i could draw one quick comparison. eisenhower's went back to write his memoirs at his home. every time he wanted to look at a classified document from his presidency, he had to apply to see them. they were stored in a military area in maryland. he saw them under careful limitations. the idea a president had nuclear secrets lying around available to someone who might have broken into his basement is mind boggling. >> let's talk about the historic significant of this. the critics -- knee-jerk critics, including many members of congress, just jumping all over the justice department for

the search, which was a warranted search. taking this step, having the former president of the united states involved in this kind of search, take a step back to the big picture. >> we have never seen anything like this ever before. it creates two questions. number one, if this happened and if he had classified documents, especially with nuclear secrets that are about the most sensitive secrets we have got in this government, why did he do that? were they in a placement at mar-a-lago for all these months? what did he have in mind? if someone broke in, that could have put our children in danger. the other question you have to ask about anyone who is not handling classified documents properly, let alone a former president, did he share them with someone else? did he share the information with someone else? with a hostile foreign government? conceivably with someone that may have been a terrorist group?

that puts all of us in danger. we depend on a president to protect you not jeopardize our lives. >> ken, i know you will be with us throughout the show, if anything does break. phil, paul, thank you. michael, stay for a moment. i want to read breaking news and ask you about it on the other side. our breaking news from new york state, state police say that they are investigating an attack on author salman rushdie. a male suspect in custody ran on stage and attacked rushdie and an interviewer and rushdie suffered a stab wound to the neck. you can see people tending to him. he was speaking at this event. it's a summer authors' festival. a gathering of intellectuals.

his work is controversial. iran's leader called for his execution over "the satanic versus." he continues -- i believe there were millions of dollars on his head. michael, i'm putting you on the spot, but as an author and historian, i don't know if you know salman rushdie from intellectual circles. >> i met him. >> talk to me about how shocking this is after all of these decades, we assume he had security. he was still under a death order. but to happen -- i saw the pictures of the audience. there were hundreds of people there in a covered outdoor pavilion, i guess you could describe it. what do you think? >> yeah. i have spoken there several

times. it's the site of a famous speech by roosevelt. a very peaceful place. it's not in a high crime area or anything like that. the bitter irony -- i remember rushdie being quoted as saying around the time that the death threat was put on him that he wasn't worried about being in danger at the time but that decades later, someone who remembered this, maybe a waiter in a restaurant, he said, might put him in danger. i hope this is not a sign of larger outbursts of danger and violence in the society. i think you and i would agree, we have to find out what happened. >> i know. we don't know if this is connected to iran. we just know of the horror of it all. a celebrated author. thank you, michael, on all fronts. >> of course. in a few hours, the house is going to vote on that sweeping package to lower health care

costs, raise taxes on large companies and reduce the deficit. it's more than a year in the making. speaker pelosi is speaking about its impact on american families this morning. >> it makes a difference at the kitchen table and at the boardroom table. corporations and the wealthy will have to pay their fair share. >> joining me now is california congresswoman loloftgrin. let me ask you about the bill. are you in your office? are you in proxy? >> i'm in washington. we will be voting on this bill in a few hours. i think it's a terrific step forward for america. when you think about members of your family who are off medicare, their prescription bills are going to be capped at

no more than $2,000 a year. that's a very big deal for people on a limited income. for seniors who have diabetes, their costs for insulin will be capped at no more than $35 a month. this is going to make a very big difference in the lives of senior citizens. it extends assistance to people under the affordable care act for three years. that's a very important matter and something we in california have been paying close attention to. the biggest investment in clean energy and climate change in the history of the united states. it's a very big deal. it will reduce the deficit. it will tax corporations that have not been paying their fair share. everyone should pay their fair share.

overall, it's a very big deal for the country. >> of course, i know you are a part of taiwan caucus. you have to be concerned that not only had china done these very aggressive military exercises, unprecedented, but that now they have really practiced a potential invasion. you have seen the numbers of fighter jets, warships. they say a nuclear submarine. they have been surrounding taiwan. they say they will do these exercises on a regular basis. president xi has reached a new threat level. what's your take on this? >> yes. it's very reckless on their part. they have no more claim to taiwan being part of china than the u.s. has a claim to cuba being part of the u.s. it's not appropriate. taiwan has a right to be free. there's strong sentiment in the

house of representatives along those lines. i'm part of that group. >> let me also ask you about the fbi search. i know people are jumping to a lot of conclusions. we are being careful about what we are reporting. we know it's an unprecedented search. it's been acknowledged there was classified information. "the washington post" is saying nuclear weapons. we have not confirmed that independently. what do you think about this? the possibility that the president, who you have been investigating for other things, is now the subject of this search that merrick garland came out and confirmed it because of the incredible threats against the fbi and the justice department and the denunciation of it, the attacks by members of the republican party? >> i think it's important that the information get out. i try not to speculate.

i try to deal with facts. but some of my colleagues do not appear to be tethered to the facts. it was tweeted we should destroy the fbi and that would save america. yesterday, we had some individual attack the fbi office in ohio. the things that people are saying are picked up by people who may be unstable. it's dangerous. people are threatening our law enforcement personnel. that's completely wrong. the former president says he supports the release. he has this information. he should just release it. apparently, he does not plan to do that. i hope the court quickly authorizes the release. then we will see. i don't know what was in it any more than anyone else. i read the story.

i don't know. i have no idea other than what i read in the news article. i would like to see what's in the documents. we do know that a court will not order a search unless they find probable cause to believe that a crime has been committed and that the particular search being proposed is likely to find evidence of the crime. that is the standard all courts follow. i presume followed in this case. >> i know you don't talk about witnesses. but we know that robert o'brien, the former national security advisor, was scheduled to appear or testify -- i don't know if it's virtually or not -- today for your committee. has that taken place? >> as you know, andrea, the committee rules don't allow us to discuss witnesses coming in and the like. unless the committee votes and the committee has not voted to

release that information. >> okay. we will put a pin in that. don't know if any information that might be picked up from this search warrant might affect the work that you are doing. how is your coordination with the justice department these days? >> we don't coordinate with the justice department. we're a legislative committee. they are prosecutors. we have not played any role in this warrant. i have no idea what they are pursuing. you could come up with theories where there would be overlap or not. we will have to wait and see what the documents show and see whether our committee's jurisdiction would be involved or not. i don't want to speculate. hopefully, this afternoon, we will know what was in the

documents and we will see. >> time is going to run out at some point. have you started writing your report? are there chapters being done as you proceed? are you going to resume hearings? we expect in september. >> we have been putting things together, pen to paper, throughout. you don't wait to the end to document what you have done. we do hope to have a final product that is thorough but also accessible to the american people and that we hope will be able to point out the truth and let people reach their own conclusions. the committee is also charged with making recommendations to changes to law and procedure that would make the country less vulnerable to matters of misconduct such as on january 6. we're looking at recommendations in areas of the law where we

could make improvements. we hope to have that out in the near future as well. >> on all things, thank you so much, congresswoman lofgren. a very busy friday in august. unpredictable as the breaking news has been lately. thanks for joining us. >> it will be a great day when we get this bill passed and signed into law. >> we look forward to that. thank you. the pickup game in a sharply divided senate. democrats are looking to north carolina for a potential win. a candidate for the u.s. senate is joining us next. this is "andrea mitchell reports." you are watching msnbc. ♪

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it's my pleasure to meet you. good to see you. thanks for joining us. >> thank you, andrea. >> i do want to ask whether you are concerned this green party backed candidate could divide the anti-trump candidate vote and cut into your potential votes in this tight race. >> i'm really not. i said all along, we were prepared to win this race regardless of who was on the ballot. we are out there meeting voters, feeling a lot of energy and enthusiasm in this race. i certainly know that there are real concerning issues about our environment. we are in a climate crisis. i'm fully prepared to address those. i'm excited about where we are in this race. >> when you talk to voters, is the economy, inflation, are those the biggest issues? that's what's polling nationally, of course. has roe v. wade and the supreme court decision changed it at all? >> you know, i think it's fair

to say that the folks that i'm talking with across north carolina really do want to know that senators are working hard to lower costs. people are certainly feeling the pain at the pump to needing prescription drug costs lowered. they want to know the next senator from our great state is going to fight hard to do that. i would also say that the decision in dobbs is a real motivating factor in this race. there are so many people in our state who are incensed and see the politicians are out of step with the sentiment of the majority of people here in north carolina and this country. i've been a judge a long time, over 20 years. i know that there's a constitutional right for nearly 50 years for reproductive freedom for families to make their own decisions without government interference. my opponent on the other hand,

believes we should have a ban on abortion, even in the case of rape. >> if you were to win, this would be historic for north carolina. they haven't had a democrat in a while. you would be the first black senator from north carolina. what are you finding as you go in the rural communities and in many of the ruby red areas of the state? what kind of reception are you getting? >> people have been just amazing. i certainly understand that representation matters. it matters that we have our senate that represents the diversity and talent and experiences of black women. but i certainly also tell you that i am running for all of north carolina. as important as it is, how the

senate looks is how the senate works. it's just not working for us here in north carolina. i certainly know that we are traveling all over this great state. we have been to the western part of the state and the eastern part of the state. people are excited, they are engaged. we have had support from all 100 counties in the state. it's a big state. we are the ninth largest in the nation. we are excited about people being galvanized and excited about the race. certainly, if people want to know about my candidacy, i would ask them to go to cheribeasley.com. >> your reaction to president trump pleading the fifth and the fbi searching his residence? you are a former supreme court chief judge from north carolina. you know the legal ramifications of this. >> i do. i just know i have a real respect for the rule of law, for

law enforcement being able to do their jobs. i think we need to see how this falls into place to have an opportunity to assess where we are. i do also know that it's important that national security be of primary concern for all of us. >> it's a pleasure to meet you. we would give an opportunity, of course, to ted bud to come on. we find this a fascinating race. this could be the deciding race that decides whether the democrats stay -- keep control of the senate. >> we're excited. thanks so much for having me. >> you bet. ten years later, a new plea from the parents of an american journalist, a decade after he vanished inside syria, believe held by the syrian regime. his mother joins us next. and mine's unlisted.

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as we approach the ten-year anniversary of the abduction of american journalist austin tice in syria, president biden making a plea to damascus and writing, we know with certainly that he has been held by the syrian regime. he turned 41 just yesterday. with me now, i'm pleased to have deborah tice, his mother. it's good to see you. >> thank you for having me. i really appreciate it. >> it's good to see you. i know you have been working hard. what hope do you have now? you've had meetings in the state department, presumably the white house this week while you are in washington. is there any more information about your son's whereabouts? >> we don't need more

information about his whereabouts. we know he is in syria. we know that he is held by a friendly to syrian entity for sure. what we need is engagement. what i'm hearing is that we are in the process of having engagement. now it's time to encourage the government. when i was in syria -- i lived there for 83 days in 2014. i received a message, i will not meet with the mother. send a u.s. government official of appropriate title. what we need now is to make sure that we send someone to this meeting of appropriate title that has the ability for sustained engagement. that engagement needs to be

according to this president's directive. he said, meet with the syrians, listen to them, find out what they want, work with them. >> president biden had made this directive. you want to see it followed up. >> exactly. exactly. one of my sons sent me a message and said, don't tell me, show me. that's my mom. that's what we're waiting for. we are waiting to see the action. >> you want one of the state department negotiators, presumably, or white house negotiator to go to the meeting and plant himself or herself there and deal with the syrian regime or with this offshoot? >> right. it needs to be someone in the united states government to give it some serious thought about who is most capable, who is most

acceptable, who is of appropriate title to have that kind of tenacity and perseverance. >> why has it taken so long to take this step? >> why has it taken so long to take this step, i don't understand. i've been asking since 2014 for this step, engagement. any hostage situation is going to require engagement, negotiation and confession. those are the steps. if they're not taken, you are leaving someone hostage. >> you see all of the focus, understandably, on brittney griner, paul whelan now, and others being held in russia, imprisoned in russia. do you think the administration is distracted by that? that they are not paying enough attention to austin tice who has been there for ten years?

>> i'm happy to see they are -- after nine years of telling me it wasn't possible, now they are showing me that engagement, negotiation and confession is absolutely doable by the united states government. >> in the case of those held in russia? >> that and the case of austin tice. if they can do it for an american, my son qualifies. let's go. >> do you have any promise of that now? >> i have assurance, i would say. >> have you met with the president? >> we met with the president, my husband and i, on may 2nd. that's when he gave that directive. we are 3 1/2 months away from that meeting. 3 1/2 months, andrea, to get a meeting. >> a meeting with the hostage takers? >> with the syrian government. 3 1/2 months.

>> you've got a birthday coming up. how do you commemorate these absences as the years pass? >> right. this is the first time -- austin's birthday was yesterday. he is 41 now. i've been a mom for more than 41 years. but i did meet him 41 years ago. this is the first time i wasn't with my family to celebrate austin's birth. just be so glad that he is our big brother. we threw something together last night in d.c. it was very nice. it's hard to be away from his siblings and his father on that occasion. >> we are feeling for you as this anniversary of the tenth

anniversary approaches. every day is another unimaginable burden for you and your family. hoping that this now does take place. >> right. this tenth, you know, is crushing. it's the first time that -- i'm thinking about austin, i'm thinking about austin having to know he really has been left there for ten years. i'm just praying for extra strength for him, that his hope is steadfast and he knows he is going to walk free. we are working on it. i'm sorry that it has been ten years. but you can do this. you can walk free. hang in there. >> you know the strength of your son. we admire him. >> thank you. >> thank you.

to you and your family. >> thank you. >> all the best. >> i appreciate that. coming up, a tale of two presidents. big wins for president biden this week and more legal trouble for his predecessor. john podesta, who has worked for two presidents himself, joining us next for some perspective. you are watching "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. you ever wonder why people are always on their phones? they're banking, with bank of america. look at this guy. he bought those tickets on his credit card and he's rackin' up the rewards. she's using zelle to pay him back for the hot dogs he's about to buy. and the announcer? he's not checkin' his stats, he's finding some investing ideas with merrill.

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it's been a very big week for the current president and his predecessor. president biden riding a surprise winning summer streak with gas prices falling, a piece of his legislative agenda moving through congress finished today. former president trump facing questions over his handling of classified information after an unprecedented search of his florida home. joining me now is john podesta, former white house chief of staff to president clinton, founder and chair of the board

of directors at the center for american progress and founder of climate power. we want to talk about the climate. i don't know about inflation reduction. but climate and drug price control and corporate minimum tax bill in a moment. minimum t moment. but first, let me ask you about the extraordinary circumstances of this week. you have had top secret clearance as a former chief of staff. go ahead. the classified information could have been take from the white house so casually and kept at the summer home. >> this week is an incredible split screen between biden's success and what's going on in marla dpo. we don't know much a federal

judge found there was probable cause that a crime was committed and that the execution of a search warrant could discover evidence of that crime. that's all we really know. but "the washington post" now is reporting that this may have something to do with his removal of very highly classified nuclear documents from the white house. and that would be an extremely serious charge. so all of his enablers, all kevin mccarthy on down, the maga republican who is go out of their way to attack the fbi, they would be standing there looking pretty foolish if that's what this turns out to be. >> and we know that they released classified documents, we have not confirmed the nuclear piece of it, but just the handling of classification, does a president of the united states have the right, he or she, has a right to classify and

declassify, but it's a procedure to declassify. it's not just waving a wand and saying these are declassified. i'm taking them with me. >> remember trump was cavalier about this when he disclosed classified information to their russian foreign minister and ambassador having to do with intelligence that was providd and his argument was, well, it doesn't matter because they can declassify anything. i have to say having worked for two presidents and observed many more, no one really managed classified information in such a cavalier fashion. they take it seriously. if these are the most sensitive classified documents that require the most serious level

of control both physical control and the commitment to control those documents, then this is really just one more in a series of incidents in which donald trump believes that nothing applies to him. the lu doesn't apply to him. he's above the law. but in this case, he may be getting closer to realizing that in america, no one is above the law. >> turning to capitol hill, you have been such an advocate for doing something with the climate there. it's investment in this legislation that's going pass the house just today. just today we also learned that the global warming in the arctic is many times more serious than we thought it was so very short time here to do anything that's important enough. is this compromised bill good enough? is it a good start? >> i think it's monumental.

you keyed off that i have the privilege, i guess, of going up to the alaskan and spoke in smoke in the air. the tun tra is on fire. so we have to act. this bill is very significant piece of action. it seemed dead two weeks ago and now this is the most historic investment in clean power and clean transportation, in clean buildings. it's extremely significant. there's $60 billion for environmental justice. there's not everything we wanted and there's some copromise included in the legislation, but this is a giant leap forward and puts the united states on track to reduce its emissions by 40% by 2030 and gives the president with the other things he can do the chance of cutting emissions in half, that's what we we need

to do in order to have a chance at stopping this extreme weather that's putting so much burden on people this our country and around the world. >> do you think this could change the dynamic of the midterms? his polls just don't seem to budge. then you have the abortion bill. >> there's a little bit of lag, but i think as you the noted, the has had a good week with gas prices down, inflation down. this will reduce health care costs. it will reduce energy costs. but the election is going to be about a contrast. the contrast of somebody who cares about what the american people is happening in their lives and trying to make them better. whether it's reducing those costs or providing cleaner air. versus a party that's really just become extreme.

a party that celebrates the decision to reverse roe v. wade. candidates being selected who want to outlaw abortion in all cases. people who are defending the indefensible with respect to donald trump. and people who just care more about power than the american people. so i think that contrast is very strong. and i think this bill will help democrats make the case. we'll see what happens in the next couple week, but biden is doing a great job and he's had a lot of head winds, particularly around inflation. i think this may give him an uptick. >> thank you very much. thanks for coming in on a friday. that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." remember, follow us online on facebook and on twitter. and ul see you this sunday when i'm filling in for chuck todd on "meet the press" and i'm joined by senator amy cloeb char of minnesota and senator mike rounds of south dakota. joe fryier picks up our

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